Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a
time.

Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a
time.

Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts
absolutely.

Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts
absolutely.

A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until
the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.

A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until
the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.

Lieutenant Dunbar wasn't really swallowed. But that was the
first word that stuck in his head.

Lieutenant Dunbar wasn't really swallowed. But that was the
first word that stuck in his head.

Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know
there is a problem.

Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know
there is a problem.

A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good
reason and the real reason.

A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good
reason and the real reason.

Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice
that is desired.

Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice
that is desired.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a
mistake when you make it again.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a
mistake when you make it again.

Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to
inform the reader but to protect the writer.

Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to
inform the reader but to protect the writer.